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Date:   Wed, 18 May 2022 15:36:03 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc:     Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [patch 8/9] scripts/spdxcheck: Exclude dot files
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On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 08:43:52PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Mon, May 16 2022 at 16:22, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> > On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 3:55 PM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
> >>
> >> None of these files
> >>
> >>      .clang-format, .cocciconfig, .get_maintainer.ignore, .gitattributes,
> >>      .gitignore, .mailmap
> >>
> >> have copyrightable content. They are configuration files which use a
> >> publicly documented format.
> >
> > Should this files remove their SPDX-License-Identifier? If yes, we
> > should do that for `.clang-format`.
> >
> > As another suggestion, we should check that the ignored files actually
> > do _not_ have the `SPDX-License-Identifier` (i.e. so the above case
> > would trigger a diagnostic).
> 
> Good questions. I'm happy to drop this patch for now until this
> discussion has been settled.

I've now taken all patches in this series except for this one.

thanks for doing this work,

greg k-h